Ability to broadcast Javascript Charts

Hi Dillon, have some great news on this! The ability to export JS charts to PDF was actually included in 9.3 (along with the other PDF export improvements), apologies for missing this earlier!

There is however some nuance to this, as depending on the chart, you may need to increase the page size to accommodate and also ensure the chart doesn't take longer to render than the report takes to run, otherwise the export will complete and not include the chart.

I do have an example attached for you to use, which is built of the Yellowfin Ski Team example , just to show that it does in fact work (you could probably also just modify the chart to have it work with your own data set, as it only needs 2 metrics and a dimension) .

Please let me know how it all goes!

Regards,

David

Hi David,

The export is not working for the Highcharts chart included in my reports. It looks like the chart renders slightly after the report data, probably because of the additional data processing involved in the JS. Also, even thought I'm using 9.4, I get several YF warnings stating the JavaScript charts will not be exported when I attempt it. But I haven't loaded your file to see if that works because I have an issue with the Ski Team data source. The connection works, but Yellowfin doesn't see any tables. Not sure what that issue is yet.

What about the broadcasting of JavaScript charts? Is this supposed to be working too?

Thanks

Hi Dillon,

I can confirm the JS Chart I'm using is also exporting via the Broadcast (PDF) option, and not getting any warnings about exporting to PDFs (which is not something I would expect to see).

I think there are 2 ways we can go about this to narrow down your issues;

-Use my attached example and create the fields in your report to match the chart (I've attached a simply JS chart requiring only 2 columns)

You can either directly import the YFX attached (just ensure you have a report with the 2 columns named like above and same data type.

OR Use the attached JS chart code and ensure you have the same column names/types in your report.

-Organise a screen share and see what we can figure out together (a note on this, I'll need to pass this to another member of the team in your region to cater for your timezone).

I think if we start by first ruling out issues with your particular JS chart we can then figure out if we need to dive deeper into your YF application itself (e.g. version/libraries) or simply focus more on the JS chart itself.

Please let me know how you would like to proceed with any of this and we will do everything we can to get this all cleared up!

Thanks,

David

Hey Dillion, just wanted to see how you were getting on with this?

Thanks,

David

Hi David,

I created a report using your JS code but my data, renaming the columns so your code would work as is. When I attempt to email this, I get the notification in screenshot 1 before I do and the email (file 2) comes with only a link to the report because it contains a JS chart.

When I try to export this, I get the notification in screenshot 3 prior to the export, and the PDF file is exported without the chart (file 4).

Please advise.

Thanks

Thanks for the screens Dillion, that explains the email message. You were using Share > Email, where I was using Broadcast:

However.. as for the export to PDF not working, that's not expected. I think next steps is to set up a screen-share if you could spare 10mins? I will send you a separate email to grab timezone/availabilities.

Thanks,

David